the environment? yes, i feel as strongly as anyone about the preservation of the environment. when we took office, we found that the national parks were so dirty and contained so many hazards, lack of safety features, that we stopped buying additional park land until we had rectified this with what was to be a 5-year program -- but it's just about finished already -- a billion dollars. and now we're going back to budgeting for additional lands for our parks. we have added millions of acres to the wilderness lands, to the game refuges. i think that we're out in front of most -- and i see that the red light is blinking, so i can't continue. but i've got more. >> well, you'll have a chance when your rebuttal time comes up, perhaps, mr. president. mr. mondale, now it's your turn for rebuttal. >> the president says that when the democratic party made its turn, he left it. the year that he decided we had lost our way was the year that john f. kennedy was running against richard nixon. i was chairman of "minnesotans for kennedy,'' president reagan was chairman of a thing called "demo